Zero Dark Thirty redefined the meaning of war for me. The
whole quest of finding Osama Bin Laden, which took 10 years, portrayed the
terrifying underlying complications with government and Al-Qaeda. As I am
Muslim, I know how peaceful Islam is. By seeing all the terrorism and bloodshed
in this movie while taking the name of “Allah” in order to perform the act of
terrorism exemplifies how Islam is being used over and over again in order to
gain all the corrupting powers for Al-Qaeda and its corrupted “so called”
Islamic leaders.
Once of the scene that stayed affected me the most in the
entire movie was when there was a suicide bomb attack in Camp Chapman. Before
the attack, the only thing he said was “Allah-Hu-Akbar,” which means “God is
the Greatest.” Being a faithful follower of Islam, it is amazing to me that how
these Islamic groups are mass murdering, destroying countries with the name of Allah.
As all these Islamic leaders proclaim that they have memorized every section of
Qur’an, which is an ultimate lie, because it is clearly written in there that
murders, lies, adultery, all of them will cause great consequences in the day
of judgment.
These leaders have portrayed this peaceful religion in a way
that now whenever a bomb attack occurs anywhere in the world; the Muslims are
always to be the first one to blame. These leaders preaches to respect women
yet they treat them with the most brutality, cruelty, and even sometimes kill
them because in their opinion they haven’t done what their “Man” has asked them
to do.
Zero Dark Thirty is a great example to see what corrupted
leaders can perform in the name of their religion and kill thousands and thousands
of innocent people while believing that they are acting upon what has God asked
them to do. This movie shows how extremist Islamic leaders are capable of just
to remain in power and the only one to be in power.
Great post Sumaita. It is very interesting to hear from someone who was been born and raised a Muslim how they feel about all this. I imagine it must be really frustrating when your religion is made into a scapegoat by the media because much of the terror that has been caused by terrorists was in the name of Allah. Of course Islam is no more harmful than Christianity or Judaism but the extremists could make a bad name out of just about anything. Thank you for your insight and good points.
ReplyDeleteI hate how people tend to use religions to justify their actions. Throughout history, religions have usually been the cause of so many massacres in the name of a god or many gods in one form or another. Religions have caused more harm than good. Religions killed people from other religions because they had different faith. Religions burned women because they thought those women were witches. Religions punished people for believing in evolution, calling them heretics. Religions forbid people to be who they are: homosexuals are considered sinful and will enter eternal damnation. Is that what god wants if he does exist? I'm not a religious person, but I have learned of the Bible through philosophy and religion classes. And that god did tell people to kill others if I'm not mistaken. Religions were the cause of so many wars and injustice that have been going on for centuries. Yet, some still blindly believe in the outdated doctrine and the book which was probably written by another mortal man and does everything religion tells him to do hoping that one day he will enter heaven with eternal bliss full of women and wealth. Why can't people just do good thing just because? Why do people do good things because they want to go to heaven? Is that really a truly good action if the person who does the deed has an ulterior selfish motive?
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